Remaja putri pada umumnya juga sangat menyukai dan berkeinginan untuk dapat terjun ke dunia modeling dan fashion. Kehidupan glamour dan ketenaran nampaknya adalah hal utama yang telah menjadi daya tarik para remaja putri maupun gadis dewasa untuk tertarik pada dunia modeling dan fashion. Belum lagi dunia modeling merupakan salah satu jalan untuk dapat menjadi seoranga artis ternama. Banyak artis-artis terkenal sebelumnya berkarir menjadi seorang model terlebih dahulu. Namun untuk dapat menjadi seorang model profesional diperlukan langkah-langkah yang tepat dan efisien agar impian menjadi seorang model terkenal dapat terwujud.
Berikut adalah langkah-langkah yang dapat kita rencanakan untuk dapat merintis menjadi seorang model profesional, karena langkah yang terencana dan aksi nyata mustahil cita-cita menjadi seorang model dapat terlaksana secara baik. Langkah-langkah tersebut adalah :
1. Menyadari bahwa untuk menjadi seorang model menuntut persyaratan yang cukup berat
Dari segi fisik, untuk dapat menjadi seorang model pada umumnya Anda juga harus memiliki kelebihan secara fisik. Entah rambut yang indah, ukuran tubuh yang ideal, berat badan ideal, kulit yang lembut, kulit bebas jerawat, atau ciri fisik lainnya. Tentunya Anda tak boleh main-main saat menjadi model, Anda juga harus siap untuk dapat melakukan latihan ekstra keras, fitness dengan serius dan teratur, melakukan berbagai perawatan tubuh, hingga diet ketat.
Siapkan terlebih dahulu diri Anda. Jika memang Anda siap untuk menjalani semua persyaratan tersebut. Ikuti langkah berikutnya.
2. Tentukan bidang model yang profesional ingin Anda jalani
Ada beberapa bidang modelling yang wajib Anda pilih dan tentukan terlebih dahulu:
Model Plus Size, yaitu model dengan ukuran tubuh plus, untuk dapat melakoni beberapa peran yang memang telah memiliki ukuran tubuh plus
Model Catwalk, model yang satu ini diwajibkan untuk dapat memiliki tubuh langsing ideal. Tinggi badan kurang lebih 170 cm, dan Anda juga diwajibkan untuk melakukan diet ketat, agar ukuran tubuh Anda tidak melar dan sesuai dengan ukuran baju desainer
Model iklan, pada umumnya model iklan adalah seseorang yang camera face, dengan ukuran tubuh ideal dan juga penampilan yang sangat menarik
3. Lakukan beberapa photo take di studio (phortofolio)
Saat ini sudah banyak studio-studio photo yang ada di sekitar kita. Coba untuk buat janji dengan mereka, dan minta mereka untuk memfoto Anda dengan berbagai pose. Tentunya Anda juga harus pandai memilih gaya, dan lihat bagaimana hasil foto Anda. Berusahalah agar terlihat ekspresif dan menarik di dalam foto. Foto yang diambil secara baik akan menjadi modal awal saat kita mengajukan atau mengirimkan phortofolio kita ke agen-agen model atau majalah-majalah model.
4. Agen Model
Kirimkan hasil foto Anda beserta cerita singkat tentang diri Anda, serta keinginan Anda berlenggok di dunia model kepada agen model atau majalah-majalah model. Cermati juga dalam memilih agen model yang terpercaya. Tunggu sampai Anda dipanggil dan diminta untuk dapat menghadiri wawancara.
5. Siapkan Akting Anda
Jangan datang tanpa persiapan yang baik saat interview. Sebelumnya lakukan latihan di rumah di depan cermin, bagaimana saat ekspresi Anda harus bahagia, tertawa, menangis atau marah. What? ya, tentu saja. Seorang model juga harus dapat melakoni banyak peran dan menghayati perannya, sama seperti seorang artis. Dengan demikian, sebuah foto juga akan tampak seperti nyata, indah dan alami (natural).
6. Profesional
Jika ternyata agen model tak memanggil Anda, jangan kecewa dan marah. Mungkin masih ada beberapa hal yang harus Anda pelajari terlebih dahulu.
Namun jika ternyata Anda dipanggil dan diterima sebagai model. Pastikan bahwa Anda telah menyiapkan jadwal dan disiplin dalam menjalani jadwal kerja Anda. Pandai-pandailah dalam mengorganisasi dan mengatur waktu Anda.
Baltimore Residents Away From Turmoil Consider Their Role
BALTIMORE — In the afternoons, the streets of Locust Point are clean and nearly silent. In front of the rowhouses, potted plants rest next to steps of brick or concrete. There is a shopping center nearby with restaurants, and a grocery store filled with fresh foods.
And the National Guard and the police are largely absent. So, too, residents say, are worries about what happened a few miles away on April 27 when, in a space of hours, parts of this city became riot zones.
“They’re not our reality,” Ashley Fowler, 30, said on Monday at the restaurant where she works. “They’re not what we’re living right now. We live in, not to be racist, white America.”
As Baltimore considers its way forward after the violent unrest brought by the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who died of injuries he suffered while in police custody, residents in its predominantly white neighborhoods acknowledge that they are sometimes struggling to understand what beyond Mr. Gray’s death spurred the turmoil here. For many, the poverty and troubled schools of gritty West Baltimore are distant troubles, glimpsed only when they pass through the area on their way somewhere else.
And so neighborhoods of Baltimore are facing altogether different reckonings after Mr. Gray’s death. In mostly black communities like Sandtown-Winchester, where some of the most destructive rioting played out last week, residents are hoping businesses will reopen and that the police will change their strategies. But in mostly white areas like Canton and Locust Point, some residents wonder what role, if any, they should play in reimagining stretches of Baltimore where they do not live.
“Most of the people are kind of at a loss as to what they’re supposed to do,” said Dr. Richard Lamb, a dentist who has practiced in the same Locust Point office for nearly 39 years. “I listen to the news reports. I listen to the clergymen. I listen to the facts of the rampant unemployment and the lack of opportunities in the area. Listen, I pay my taxes. Exactly what can I do?”
And in Canton, where the restaurants have clever names like Nacho Mama’s and Holy Crepe Bakery and Café, Sara Bahr said solutions seemed out of reach for a proudly liberal city.
“I can only imagine how frustrated they must be,” said Ms. Bahr, 36, a nurse who was out with her 3-year-old daughter, Sally. “I just wish I knew how to solve poverty. I don’t know what to do to make it better.”
The day of unrest and the overwhelmingly peaceful demonstrations that followed led to hundreds of arrests, often for violations of the curfew imposed on the city for five consecutive nights while National Guard soldiers patrolled the streets. Although there were isolated instances of trouble in Canton, the neighborhood association said on its website, many parts of southeast Baltimore were physically untouched by the tumult.
Tensions in the city bubbled anew on Monday after reports that the police had wounded a black man in Northwest Baltimore. The authorities denied those reports and sent officers to talk with the crowds that gathered while other officers clutching shields blocked traffic at Pennsylvania and West North Avenues.
Lt. Col. Melvin Russell, a community police officer, said officers had stopped a man suspected of carrying a handgun and that “one of those rounds was spent.”
Colonel Russell said officers had not opened fire, “so we couldn’t have shot him.”
The colonel said the man had not been injured but was taken to a hospital as a precaution. Nearby, many people stood in disbelief, despite the efforts by the authorities to quash reports they described as “unfounded.”
Monday’s episode was a brief moment in a larger drama that has yielded anger and confusion. Although many people said they were familiar with accounts of the police harassing or intimidating residents, many in Canton and Locust Point said they had never experienced it themselves. When they watched the unrest, which many protesters said was fueled by feelings that they lived only on Baltimore’s margins, even those like Ms. Bahr who were pained by what they saw said they could scarcely comprehend the emotions associated with it.
But others, like Lambi Vasilakopoulos, who runs a casual restaurant in Canton, said they were incensed by what unfolded last week.
“What happened wasn’t called for. Protests are one thing; looting is another thing,” he said, adding, “We’re very frustrated because we’re the ones who are going to pay for this.”
There were pockets of optimism, though, that Baltimore would enter a period of reconciliation.
“I’m just hoping for peace,” Natalie Boies, 53, said in front of the Locust Point home where she has lived for 50 years. “Learn to love each other; be patient with each other; find justice; and care.”
A skeptical Mr. Vasilakopoulos predicted tensions would worsen.
“It cannot be fixed,” he said. “It’s going to get worse. Why? Because people don’t obey the laws. They don’t want to obey them.”
But there were few fears that the violence that plagued West Baltimore last week would play out on these relaxed streets. The authorities, Ms. Fowler said, would make sure of that.
“They kept us safe here,” she said. “I didn’t feel uncomfortable when I was in my house three blocks away from here. I knew I was going to be O.K. because I knew they weren’t going to let anyone come and loot our properties or our businesses or burn our cars.”